James Mozart and Toby Beethoven

In this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby and James discuss last Saturday’s live recording of The Delingpod, in which James interviewed Neil Oliver in front of a paying audience of 900; Toby worries about whether his live recording of The Weekly Sceptic on 1st April in the same venue (the Emmanuel Centre) will be as popular. It has been some time since Mummy and Daddy had a fight, no? This week they argue about who is doing more to preserve our liberties, with James maintaining democratic institutions are now wholly-owned by the billionaire class and all the usual methods for holding the powerful to account are broken, and Toby arguing the system still works, but is in need of rejuvenation. James cites the lack of discussion about vaccine injuries as an example of how captured the mainstream media is, while Toby cites the recent discussion in the New York Times of the Cochrane mask study, as well as the lab leak hypothesis, as evidence the picture is more nuanced. In Culture Corner, they discuss cultural tourism, the ‘updating’ of the novels of Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming, Oblomov, Riding the Rap by Elmore Leonard, season five of Drive to Survive (Netflix) and season three of Happy Valley (BBC One, US debut in May 2023). Opening sound this week is Sky News Australia reporting on the Wuhan lab leak. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices